Oliver H. Olney records a revelation he received from the Ancient of days; instructed to discuss polygamy with Church leaders; righteous branch among the Gentiles promised.

Date
2019
Type
Book
Source
Oliver H. Olney
Excommunicated
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Oliver H. Olney, Journal, July 16, 1842, in The Writings of Oliver H. Olney: April 1842 to February 1843—Nauvoo, Illinois, ed. Robert G. Moore (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019), 101-2

Scribe/Publisher
Greg Kofford Books, Oliver H. Olney
People
Oliver H. Olney
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Transcription

Thou are caled at this time to prepare your self for what you have to do to bring about the purposes of God You are caled to Introduce your self to the Leaders of the Church again as your work is not finished with them they are alooking to know what to do to get an intimacy with your as they vew your daily moves You are caled to write them and address your Letter to the Leaders of the Church of Latter day Saints and subscrbe your name to it O. H. Olney Your are to request of them an answer whether they will hear you or not if they will hear you you are caled to meet with as many as sees fit to meet together[er] to hear you and plainly tel them the course that God has taken with you but not in full say nothing of the P hood or of the famine or of a mobs comeing on them or of Polygemy or their cases of Audultry or fornication Lasiviousness & but speak of binding up the Law and sealing up the testimony and reason with them on the subject Speak of the sitting of the Antient of days and of their doings and the days they set 9-10-11th of June 1842 And show them the order of the days that from this time forth they are to be kept as days of Prayers and Thanksgiving to God That all difficultys shall be Ajusted before these days that no broils shall arise to distrub minds Sho them plainly that the Antient of days have sit and their first business is to clens and purify the Church And have taken possession of the Kingdoms of the Earth and the Kingdom spoken of by Daniel is about to be established on the Earth And that the son of man has come in power and took his stand on the earth to prepare the way for the Getherin of the saints and his kingdom to be reard in honour of his name That all things may move in order in honour of his name That a Righteous Branch may be raised up amongst the Gentiles that will honour the name of the Lord.

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